Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2016 12:41:58 -0400 From: Robert Hall <rjhjr0@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "Simple" Languages in FreeBSD Message-ID: <CAJmZaS18Dgn5rBCBYr748ikSxncRYedpQOX69pb3_TwVM5OwEw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20160630175243.063e07a7@KoggyBSD.org> References: <20160630175243.063e07a7@KoggyBSD.org>
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On 6/30/16, Allen <bsd_atog@comcast.net> wrote: > I've been using FreeBSD on and off since 4.0-CURRENT, which seems like > almost a lifetime ago now, heh. I'm currently using FreeBSD > 10.0-RELEASE and even though I've gotten my latest order from the > FreeBSD Mall (Which I bought 10.3-RELEASE on DVD along with a bunch of > other stuff for myself and my Wife) I'm not ready to upgrade yet since > I've gotten my system working how I like (Got WindowMaker set up, and > FVWM2, and some other stuff set up) so I'm using it for now. > > Anyway, in all these years that have passed using FreeBSD and a bunch > of Linux distros, I never had time or patience enough to learn > Programming Languages, and I'm getting more and more to the part where > I'm thinking it's a good idea more so now than before. Why is it a good idea now? If you just want to automate things on a few computers, sh will run on any *nix box without installing additional software. If you want to create GUIs in X, you'll need something more complicated. Pick something that you're likely to use a lot. Any language that you know well will be more powerful than a language you don't know well.
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